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Today is our sixteenth wedding anniversary. (I can’t believe it, of course.) Milestones invite reflection, and I’ve been thinking about what makes relationships work. Or not. Last year I chos...

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Over the years I’ve written a little about my family and our schooling choices in this space. For the past five years or so, we’ve been homeschooling. We started pretty The post When you k...

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Back in June when we celebrated our fifteenth (!!!) wedding anniversary, we celebrated like we usually do (when we’re not in a strictly gluten-free year, that is). We picked up a The post A...

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Last January, my oldest daughter Sarah (then age 9) got her ears pierced as an early birthday present (of sorts). I found out a little too late that I wanted The post I took my 8-year-old to t...

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Things I never expected to say: according to Ron Lieber’s definition in his new book The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money, I The post Raisi...

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It started when my friend came over for coffee. While we chatted in the kitchen, and Sarah kept bringing in fashion sketches to show me. She’s obsessed with design: she’s filled all The ...

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First she wanted a blog. Now she wants an Etsy shop. This is nothing new. Sarah’s been making things for as long as I can remember, and she’s wanted an The post My 8-year-old wants an Etsy...

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